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All About Microsoft:
CodeTrackerA monthly look at Microsofts codenames and what theyreveal about the direction of the company.
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All About Microsoft CodeTracker
Keeping track of Microsoft's myriad codenames is an (almost) full-time occupation. I know, as I
spend a lot of my work hours tracking down the latest names in the hopes of being able to betterkeep tabs on what's coming next from the Redmondians.
Each month, I'll be releasing an updated, downloadable version of the CodeTracker. I'll add new
codenames -- arranged in alphabetical order by codename -- of forthcoming Microsoft products
and technologies. I also will note timing changes (date slips, the release of a new test build, the
disappearance of a planned deliverable) for entries that are already part of the Tracker. Once
Microsoft releases the final version of a product or technology I've been tracking, I will remove it
from the Tracker. In that way, the CodeTracker will remain focused on futures.
(An aside about the Tracker: A question mark in place of an entry means I have insufficient
information to hazard even an educated guess about a particular category.)
If you have suggested new entries or corrections to existing ones, please drop me an e-mail at
mjf at microsofttracker dot com.
Thanks!
Mary Jo Foley, Editor, ZDNet's "All About Microsoft" blog
This Month's Theme: Big iron needs love, too
If you went by nothing but blog and publication headlines, you might think mobile phones and
slates are where all the innovation is these days. The latest news out of Microsoft with its
consumer ad-spending exuberance might lead you to think the same.
The reality is that theres a lot of behind-the-scenes movement on the high-end side of the house
in Redmond. This fall, there will be more news coming from Microsofts Technical Computing
Group that should be of interest to those building their own datacenters and distributed
computing clusters. This months update to my tracker includes codenames of a number of new
big iron projects at the company. Check out the new and updated entries for Dryad, MFx,
Nectar, Orleans, Quincy, TidyFS for more.
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Ive also added a number of updates on some of those aforementioned consumer technologies,
as well, including updates on Horizon, IE 9, Office 15 (with Lime and Limestone), the still-
rumored Zune HD2 and Wave 14 of the various Windows Live wares.
New to the codename dead pool this month is Quadrant, a piece of Microsofts Oslo modelingpuzzle. The associated M language is supposedly being refocused (whatever that means), but
isnt (yet) off the chart. IronRuby Microsofts implementation of the Ruby programming
language also is in limbo as of August.
Ive updated a number of links and due dates throughout the Tracker, as I do each month. So
without further ado, it's on to this month's Microsoft CodeTracker.
Codename ExpectedProduct Name
Description of the product Projected Due Date forfinal release
LatestMilestoneachieved
Addition
Alchemy ? The customizableshell/framework for
Embedded Compact builds
May be part of still-
unannounced mobile
devices under
development at Microsoft
? More Alc
informat
Aurora ? A small business appliancebuilt around Windows Server
2008 R2, includes Active
Directory functionality. Half
on-premises; half in cloud
2011 (?) Test buildreleased in
August
More Aurinformat
Axum (formerlycodenamed
Maestro); final
name: ?
Domain-specific language for
concurrent programming.
Built on top of Microsoft's
CCR engine
? In internal
incubation as
of 2009. New
build
supporting VS
2010 released
in mid-April
More Axu
informat
Azurelight ? Cloud-based product supportservice
Source code and
documentation was due
summer 2009 on MSDN
In
development
More
Azureligh
informat
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2893http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2893http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-aurora-hybrid-small-business-server-beta-is-ready-for-download/7106http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-aurora-hybrid-small-business-server-beta-is-ready-for-download/7106http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2522http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2522http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2502http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2502http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2502http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2502http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2502http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2502http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2522http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2522http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-aurora-hybrid-small-business-server-beta-is-ready-for-download/7106http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-aurora-hybrid-small-business-server-beta-is-ready-for-download/7106http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2893http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2893 -
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Barrelfish ? Multikernel OS project fromMicrosoft Research
Cambridge and ETH Zurich
researchers
? Early test
version of OS
downloadable
as of
September
2009
More
Barrelfish
informat
BizTalk vNext ? Successor to the BizTalkServer 2010 release of
Microsofts integration server
(which is due in 2010).
Original goal was to include
more Windows AppFabric
compatibility
Post-2011 BizTalk
Server 2010,
with
AppFabric
compatibility,
now due in
Q3 2010. No
update on
V.Next
More BizT
vNext
informat
BlueDB ? Sounds like, as of mid-May,this is still an active project
and not an early codename
for SQL Azure or Azure
storage. Not sure what it is,
other than a database-
futures effort
? ? More
Blue/dat
futures
informat
BPOS Lite A low-end version of MSBusiness Productivity Online
Suite (BPOS). Unclear if this
will be Microsoft
hosted/managed or hosted
by partners
? ? More BPO
Lite
informat
Bunker-V ? Microsoft Research project;focus is on improving
hypervisor security in the
cloud
? Paper
presented in
early June
2010 at MS
Research
summit
More Bun
informat
CamCube ? Microsoft Research project
investigating routerlessconnectivity for datacenter
servers
? Prototype
system exists(as of
summer
2010)
More
CamCubeinformat
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4075http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4075http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4075http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4654&tag=col1;post-4654http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4654&tag=col1;post-4654http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4654&tag=col1;post-4654http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5090http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5090http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5090http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-mulls-improving-hypervisor-security-for-the-cloud-with-bunker-v/6545http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-mulls-improving-hypervisor-security-for-the-cloud-with-bunker-v/6545http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-mulls-improving-hypervisor-security-for-the-cloud-with-bunker-v/6545http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-mulls-improving-hypervisor-security-for-the-cloud-with-bunker-v/6545http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5090http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5090http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5090http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-big-brains-peter-spiro/6222http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4654&tag=col1;post-4654http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4654&tag=col1;post-4654http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4654&tag=col1;post-4654http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4075http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4075http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4075 -
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Chakra ? New JavaScript engine in IE9 2011 (?) Latest IE 9preview
released in
August. Beta
expected in
Sept. 2010
More Cha
informat
Chelan WindowsEmbedded
Compact 7
The next major release of
one of Microsoft's embedded
platforms (the one inside
phones and the Zune HD,
plus third party products)
Q4 2010 Public test
build released
in early June
201
More Che
informat
Colorado ? Client Computer Connectorframework common to the
Vail and Aurora (and
possibly also next version of
SBS). Also known as
extensibility SDK
2011 (?) Colorado SDK
went to
testers in
early August
More Col
informat
Commute UX ? Car info-tainment systemfrom Microsoft Research
? Demonstrated
at TechFest
2009 in
February
More
Commut
informat
ConfigurationManager v.Next
? Adds multiple device
management to Config
Manager product
Second half of 2011 Beta 1 made
available in
May 2010
More
Configur
Manager
v.Nextinformat
Cosmos ? Storage/file system layercomponent of Microsoft's
Red Dog cloud (Azure) OS
platform. Also described as
file system for Dryad
Cosmos is part of
Microsoft's foundational
Azure platform and not a
standalone
product/service
Windows
Azure went
commercial in
February
2010; all core
components
being
continually
updated
More Cos
informat
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5572http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5572http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-public-test-build-of-embedded-compact-7-operating-system/6389http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-public-test-build-of-embedded-compact-7-operating-system/6389http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-small-business-server-futures-5-things-to-know/6835http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-small-business-server-futures-5-things-to-know/6835http://solsie.com/2009/02/commute-ux-microsoft-research-for-in-car-infotaiment/http://solsie.com/2009/02/commute-ux-microsoft-research-for-in-car-infotaiment/http://solsie.com/2009/02/commute-ux-microsoft-research-for-in-car-infotaiment/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1671http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1671http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1671http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1671http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-out-beta-1-of-next-gen-systems-management-product/6342http://solsie.com/2009/02/commute-ux-microsoft-research-for-in-car-infotaiment/http://solsie.com/2009/02/commute-ux-microsoft-research-for-in-car-infotaiment/http://solsie.com/2009/02/commute-ux-microsoft-research-for-in-car-infotaiment/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-small-business-server-futures-5-things-to-know/6835http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-small-business-server-futures-5-things-to-know/6835http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-public-test-build-of-embedded-compact-7-operating-system/6389http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-public-test-build-of-embedded-compact-7-operating-system/6389http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5572http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5572 -
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Courier ? Theres another Courier not the dual-screen tablet
incubation that Microsoft
killed in April 2010 but a
synchronization
platform/service formobile/PCs from Microsoft
Research
? Been in
development
since 2008
More Cou
informat
Dallas ? Data as a service offeringbuilt on top of Azure
Q4 2010 Private CTP
test build
available in
November
2009; CTP3
due in August
2010
More Dal
informat
Denali SQL Server2011 or 2012
(?)
Version of SQL Server that
will follow SQL Server 2008
R2
? ? More Den
informat
Descry ? Open-source visualizationsamples and code
? Sample code
available on
CodePlex and
Mix Online
site starting
in February
2009
More Des
informat
Digital Lens ? MS Innovation Labs (Israel)tool for developers writing
apps that can be viewable by
those with vision
impairments
? Test version
downloadable
as of early
June 2010
More Dig
Lens
informat
Doloto ? Microsoft Research (and nowDev Labs) tool for making
Ajax page downloads faster
? Test version
available for
download as
of September
2009
More Dol
informat
Dorado Zune softwarefor the PC
Microsofts rough equivalent
to iTunes. Being updated to
support both Zune HD
players and Windows Phones
New version likely around
holiday 2010
Current
version
supports
Zune HD (and
other media
players)
More Dor
informat
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5138http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3853http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-tool-helps-developers-create-programs-viewable-by-vision-impaired/6530http://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://visitmix.com/Lab/Descryhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5288http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/dallas/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/two-microsoft-research-projects-worth-noting-microsofts-newport-and-another-courier/6089 -
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Dryad ? Technology forwriting/running
parallel/distributed apps.
Similar to Googles
MapReduce and Apaches
Hadoop
2011 (running on top of
Windows Server HPC)
Transitioning
from research
to Tech
Computing
Group as of
summer2010. CTP1
due in Nov.
2010
More Dry
informat
DynamicDatacenterToolkit
System Center
Virtual Machine
Manager 2008
R2 Self Service
Portal 2.0
Private-cloud tools and
guidance for customers
(theres a partner version of
this toolkit as well). Runs on
Windows Server
2010 Release
candidate out
in summer of
2010
More Dyn
Datacent
Toolkit
informat
Dynamics CRM
5
Dynamics CRM
2011
Next version of Microsofts
on-premises and online CRM
products
Second half of 2010 for
online version; early 2011
for on-premises software
release
CTP 3
delivered in
March 2010;
public beta
due in Sept.
2010
More
Dynamic
5 inform
Dynamics NAV 7 ? Next version of MicrosoftsDynamics/NAV ERP platform
Originally due in 2010/11;
now in 2011/12
? More
Dynamic
7 inform
Echoes ? Platform for
distribution/delivery of LiveMobile services to Microsoft
groups and third-party
phone/IPTV providers
Target was mid-2008 to
carriers. No updated wordon status
Various
carriers andproviders
been testing
since spring
2008
More Ech
informat
Emporia ? A Twitter-viewing client fromMicrosoft FUSE Labs
? Public beta
with limited
functionality
commenced
in late May
More Pro
Emporia
informat
Experiment 19 ? Graphics component of theMenlo mobile project from
Microsoft research
? ? More
Experime
informat
Felix Microsoft OfficeDocs
A Facebook-centric version
of Office Web Apps from
Microsoft FUSE Labs
? Latest beta
refresh out in
August
More Fel
informat
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-parallel-programming-project-set-to-go-commercial-in-2011/7161http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-parallel-programming-project-set-to-go-commercial-in-2011/7161http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-a-crm-app-store/6781http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-a-crm-app-store/6781http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-a-crm-app-store/6781http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5341http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5341http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5341http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1419http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1419http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/could-menlo-signal-a-change-in-microsofts-mobile-strategy/6077?tag=col1;post-6077http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/could-menlo-signal-a-change-in-microsofts-mobile-strategy/6077?tag=col1;post-6077http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/could-menlo-signal-a-change-in-microsofts-mobile-strategy/6077?tag=col1;post-6077http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5997http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5997http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5997http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5997http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/could-menlo-signal-a-change-in-microsofts-mobile-strategy/6077?tag=col1;post-6077http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/could-menlo-signal-a-change-in-microsofts-mobile-strategy/6077?tag=col1;post-6077http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/could-menlo-signal-a-change-in-microsofts-mobile-strategy/6077?tag=col1;post-6077http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1419http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1419http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5341http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5341http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5341http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-a-crm-app-store/6781http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-a-crm-app-store/6781http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-launches-a-crm-app-store/6781http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-on-premises-private-cloud-building-block/7096http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-parallel-programming-project-set-to-go-commercial-in-2011/7161http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-parallel-programming-project-set-to-go-commercial-in-2011/7161 -
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Florida Windows Intune Windows managementsoftware and service that
evolved from System Center
Online Desktop Manager
(SCODM codenamed
Jupiter)
Early 2011 Public beta
expanded in
July 2010
More Flo
informat
Gazelle ? A new, security-focusedbrowser from Microsoft
Research. (The former
codename was Mashup OS.)
Now superseded by
ServiceOS project
? Gazelle now
part of the
ServiceOS
project in
Microsoft
Research
More Gaz
informat
Geneva Active DirectoryFederation
Services;
Windows
Identity
Framework;
CardSpace
An identity metasystem. WIF
piece shipped in November.
Active Directory Federation
Services (ADFS) version 2.0
delivered in early May. Still
nothing new on CardSpace.
Various pieces shipping
over the next several
months through Q3 2010
ADFS 2.0
RTWd in
early May
More Gen
informat
Gestalt Gestalt (?) Library that allows coders touse Python and Ruby as
alternatives to the JavaScript
language in building
(X)HTML pages on PCs or
Macs. Silverlight is under the
covers
? Test version
available for
download as
of late July
2009
More Ges
informat
Glimmer ? A jQuery interactive designtool
? Test bits
posted on
MSDN in April
2009
More Glim
informat
Grava Semblio Educational add-in for Officethat is now morphing into a
service
? Shift from
software to
service
occurred in
April 2010
More Gra
informat
Greenfield ? Microsoft Research project.Sensor application built on
top of Menlo mobile
environment
? Prototype
demonstrated
summer 2010
More
Greenfie
informat
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shares-windows-intune-cloud-management-pricing-delivers-new-beta/6799http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shares-windows-intune-cloud-management-pricing-delivers-new-beta/6799http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/serviceos-microsofts-morphing-browser-operating-system-project/6344http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/serviceos-microsofts-morphing-browser-operating-system-project/6344http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-directory-federation-services-finally-ready-to-roll/6038http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-directory-federation-services-finally-ready-to-roll/6038http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3469http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3469http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/glimmerhttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/glimmerhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5905http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5905http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-shows-off-a-prototype-menlo-mobile-phone/7029http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-shows-off-a-prototype-menlo-mobile-phone/7029http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-shows-off-a-prototype-menlo-mobile-phone/7029http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-shows-off-a-prototype-menlo-mobile-phone/7029http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-shows-off-a-prototype-menlo-mobile-phone/7029http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-research-shows-off-a-prototype-menlo-mobile-phone/7029http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5905http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5905http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/glimmerhttp://code.msdn.microsoft.com/glimmerhttp://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3469http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3469http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-directory-federation-services-finally-ready-to-roll/6038http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-directory-federation-services-finally-ready-to-roll/6038http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/serviceos-microsofts-morphing-browser-operating-system-project/6344http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/serviceos-microsofts-morphing-browser-operating-system-project/6344http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shares-windows-intune-cloud-management-pricing-delivers-new-beta/6799http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-shares-windows-intune-cloud-management-pricing-delivers-new-beta/6799 -
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Gustav ? Immersive digital paintingresearch project
? Research
project
demonstrated
at TechFest
2010 in
March 2010
More Gus
informat
Hawaii ? Microsoft Research project tocreate new cloud-centric
mobile apps and services.
Building blocks are Azure,
Win Live ID, Orion and other
Microsoft services
? 3 universities
currently
building
Hawaii
projects
More Haw
informat
Helios ? Microsoft Research project todevelop a satellite-kernel-
based operating system.
Built on top of the MSR
Singularity OS
? Internal
testing
More Hel
informat
Horizon Windows LiveSync
Microsoft's
collaboration/synchronization
service, formerly known as
Live Mesh
Part of Windows Live
Essentials (Wave 4) this
fall
Most of Live
Mesh
combined
with Windows
Live Sync;
beta refresh
out in August
More Live
Mesh
informat
Houston ? Browser-based Silverlightcontrol enabling direct
interaction with SQL Azure.
Goal is rapid cloud database
development
? CTP 1 went totesters in July
2010; refresh
in August
2010
More Houinformat
Huron Data SyncService for SQL
Azure and SQL
Azure Data
Sync
"Cloud-based data hub"
based on SQL Data Services
plus Sync Framework. One
of the projects of SQL
Services Labs
? Preview
versions of
these tools
released in
June
More Hur
informat
Hyper-V V3 ? Next version of Microsoftshypervisor virtualization
technology. V3 expected to
be available in both client
and server versions
2011/2012 (?) if part of
Windows 8/Windows
Server 8
? More Hyp
V3 inform
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/default.aspxhttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/default.aspxhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-hawaiian-codenames-are-all-about-mobile/6773http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-hawaiian-codenames-are-all-about-mobile/6773http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4082http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4082http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-live-whiplash-live-sync-reverts-back-to-live-mesh/7240http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-live-whiplash-live-sync-reverts-back-to-live-mesh/7240http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-live-whiplash-live-sync-reverts-back-to-live-mesh/7240http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-test-build-of-tool-for-cloud-database-development/6910http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-test-build-of-tool-for-cloud-database-development/6910http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tweaks-its-cloud-database-pricing/6542http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tweaks-its-cloud-database-pricing/6542http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/more-windows-8-hints-this-time-on-the-virtualization-front/6759http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/more-windows-8-hints-this-time-on-the-virtualization-front/6759http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/more-windows-8-hints-this-time-on-the-virtualization-front/6759http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/more-windows-8-hints-this-time-on-the-virtualization-front/6759http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tweaks-its-cloud-database-pricing/6542http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-tweaks-its-cloud-database-pricing/6542http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-test-build-of-tool-for-cloud-database-development/6910http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-delivers-test-build-of-tool-for-cloud-database-development/6910http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-live-whiplash-live-sync-reverts-back-to-live-mesh/7240http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-live-whiplash-live-sync-reverts-back-to-live-mesh/7240http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-live-whiplash-live-sync-reverts-back-to-live-mesh/7240http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4082http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4082http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-hawaiian-codenames-are-all-about-mobile/6773http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-new-hawaiian-codenames-are-all-about-mobile/6773http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/default.aspxhttp://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/gustav/default.aspx -
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Ibiza SyncFramework
(formerly
codenamed
Harmonica)
Synchronization service for
online/offline scenarios;
designed especially for
taking Web services and
databases offline
Version 1 RTM'd in 2009;
Version 2 SDK and
redistributables are out
MS working
on taking
Sync
Framework
capabilities to
mobile andother
platforms
More Ibiz
informat
Incarnate ? Service for finding/reusingyour avatars from the Mix
Online Labs
? In test form
since early
2010
More
Incarnat
informat
InternetExplorer 9
Internet
Explorer 9
Next version of Microsofts
browser; will include more
HTML, CSS support, plus
hardware accelerated
graphics performance
2011 (?) 4 developer
previews
released to
date; Beta 1
due in mid-
Sept. 2010
More IE 9
informat
IronRuby IronRuby Microsofts .Net-focusedimplementation of the Ruby
language
Microsoft seems to be
looking to offload
IronRuby to CodePlex
Foundation or some other
outside entity
Version 1.1
released
summer of
2010
More Iro
informat
JSMeter ? Research project focused onanalyzing and altering
JavaScript benchmarks andengines
? New findings
to be
presented inJune 2010 at
Web Apps 10
conference
More JSM
informat
Kilimanjaro SQL Server2008 R2
BI-focused upgrade to SQL
Server 2008
May 2010 for all versions
except Parallel Data
Warehouse (expected
later in 2010)
RTMd April
21, 2010
More
Kilimanja
informat
KittyHawk Visual StudioLightSwitch
FoxPro-like RAD
development
tools/framework for line of
business apps
2011 First test
build
delivered in
August 2010
More
KittyHaw
informat
http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2010/03/16/webcast-building-offline-web-apps-using-microsoft-sync-framework.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2010/03/16/webcast-building-offline-web-apps-using-microsoft-sync-framework.aspxhttp://visitmix.com/labs/Incarnate/http://visitmix.com/labs/Incarnate/http://visitmix.com/labs/Incarnate/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-this-microsofts-new-internet-explorer-9-interface/7213http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-this-microsofts-new-internet-explorer-9-interface/7213http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-next-for-microsofts-ironruby/7034http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-next-for-microsofts-ironruby/7034http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5697http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5697http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-starts-beta-1-rollout-of-new-lightswitch-dev-tool/7168http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-starts-beta-1-rollout-of-new-lightswitch-dev-tool/7168http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-starts-beta-1-rollout-of-new-lightswitch-dev-tool/7168http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-starts-beta-1-rollout-of-new-lightswitch-dev-tool/7168http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-starts-beta-1-rollout-of-new-lightswitch-dev-tool/7168http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-starts-beta-1-rollout-of-new-lightswitch-dev-tool/7168http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5973&tag=col1;post-5973http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5697http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5697http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-next-for-microsofts-ironruby/7034http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whats-next-for-microsofts-ironruby/7034http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-this-microsofts-new-internet-explorer-9-interface/7213http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-this-microsofts-new-internet-explorer-9-interface/7213http://visitmix.com/labs/Incarnate/http://visitmix.com/labs/Incarnate/http://visitmix.com/labs/Incarnate/http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2010/03/16/webcast-building-offline-web-apps-using-microsoft-sync-framework.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2010/03/16/webcast-building-offline-web-apps-using-microsoft-sync-framework.aspx -
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Kobe ? Web 2.0 servicedevelopment kit; has met
with some internal criticism
for not making good use of
ASP.Net
? First test
release out in
April 2009
More Kob
informat
Lime ? A new productivityapplication to be added to
the Office suite as of Office
15
2013 (?) First Office 15
leaks hit the
Web in
August 2010.
No Lime in
there yet
More Lim
informat
Limestone ? User interface utility in Office14/15. For developers, not
end users
? In early
leaked Office
15 builds
More
Limeston
informat
Live Framework Live Framework(?)
Windows Live development
platform
? New Live SDK
delivered in
June 2010
More Live
Framewo
tools
informat
LongARM ? Rumored port of Vista to theARM processor. Latest word
is an ARM port of Windows is
looking like a Win8
deliverable
2011/2012 if Windows 8
is the new target
? More Lon
informat
M M (wasformerly
codenamed D)
Microsoft's Oslo modeling
language
Could be folded into
future version of Visual
Studio or other Microsoft
product. Word (as of
August 2010 is M is being
refocused
New CTP out
in November
2009.
More M
informat
MFx ManagebilityFramework
New management system
for Global Foundation
Systems datacenters.
Possible replacement for
Microsofts current AutoPilot
system
? ? More MFx
informat
Madison SQL Server2008 R2 Parallel
Data Warehouse
Edition
SQL Server data appliance
based on Data Allegro
technology
Expected later in 2010 Did not RTM
with the rest
of SQL Server
2008 R2
More Ma
informat
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb194897.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb194897.aspxhttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/office-15-whats-microsofts-new-mystery-application/7180http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/office-15-whats-microsofts-new-mystery-application/7180http://www.withinwindows.com/2010/08/23/microsoft-office-limestone-isnt-a-new-mystery-office-15-application/http://www.withinwindows.com/2010/08/23/microsoft-office-limestone-isnt-a-new-mystery-office-15-application/http://www.withinwindows.com/2010/08/23/microsoft-office-limestone-isnt-a-new-mystery-office-15-application/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-arm-licensing-agreement-could-a-windows-phone-tablet-be-coming/6924?tag=mantle_skin;contenthttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-arm-licensing-agreement-could-a-windows-phone-tablet-be-coming/6924?tag=mantle_skin;contenthttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/another-piece-of-microsofts-oslo-modeling-puzzle-disappears/7014http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/another-piece-of-microsofts-oslo-modeling-puzzle-disappears/7014http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5794&tag=col1;post-5794http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5794&tag=col1;post-5794http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5794&tag=col1;post-5794http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=5794&tag=col1;post-5794http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/are-routerless-datacenters-in-microsofts-future/7271http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/another-piece-of-microsofts-oslo-modeling-puzzle-disappears/7014http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/another-piece-of-microsofts-oslo-modeling-puzzle-disappears/7014http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-arm-licensing-agreement-could-a-windows-phone-tablet-be-coming/6924?tag=mantle_skin;contenthttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/new-microsoft-arm-licensing-agreement-could-a-windows-phone-tablet-be-coming/6924?tag=mantle_skin;contenthttp://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/developer/http://www.withinwindows.com/2010/08/23/microsoft-office-limestone-isnt-a-new-mystery-office-15-application/http://www.withinwindows.com/2010/08/23/microsoft-office-limestone-isnt-a-new-mystery-office-15-application/http://www.withinwindows.com/2010/08/23/microsoft-office-limestone-isnt-a-new-mystery-office-15-application/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/office-15-whats-microsofts-new-mystery-application/7180http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/office-15-whats-microsofts-new-mystery-application/7180http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb194897.aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb194897.aspx -
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Madison (2) ? Ad-funded version ofWindows
? ? More Ma
(2)
informat
MAUI MobileAssistance
Using
Infrastructure
Part of Microsoft Researchs
Hawaii Project, which is
focused on getting students
to build cloud-centric mobile
apps/services
? 3 universities
engaged so
far
More MA
informat
Menlo ? Research projectinvestigating a new mobile
interface/environment that
will work on a variety of
processors
? Menlo layer
on a mobile
phonein
prototype
phase as of
summer 2010
More Me
informat
Metro Windows Phone7 UI
Based on the Zune HD and
Windows Media Center UI
Holiday 2010 (launch
announcement sounds
like October 2010)
Included in
private OEM
builds of Win
Phone 7
More Met
informat
Miami HealthVaultCommunity
Connect
New SharePoint-based
component of Microsofts
HealthVault software/service
platform
Rolling out now (2010) Introduced at
the HIMSS
conference in
March 2010
More Mia
informat
Midori ? Concurrent, distributedoperating system which
could be the successor to
Windows
? Post-2011 (if
and when it
comes out of
incubation)
More Mid
informat
MinSafe New codenamemay now be
XYZ (?)
Related to RedHawk; the
Windows' side of an
incubated project to replace
Win32 with managed .Net
technologies
In development inside
Microsoft
First results
could be
integrated
into Windows
8
(2011/2012?)
More Min
informat
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MinWin MinWin Project to slim down theWindows core. Also refers to
the slimmed-down core itself
The MinWin concept is
influencing Windows
development thinking
already
MinWin is in
the Windows
7 main
branch; users
unlikely to
see MinWin"surfaced"
before
Windows 8
(2011/2012)
More Min
informat
Mojave R2 CommerceServer 2009 R2
Next update to Commerce
Server. Expected to be 64-
bit only and will possibly no
longer support Windows
Server 2003 and SQL Server
2005
Early 2010 Latest CTP
available in
May 2010
More Moj
R2 inform
Monsoon ? Network architecture forcommoditizing and scaling
datacenters
? Microsoft
white paper
implies this is
in
development
now
More Mo
informat
Morro MicrosoftSecurity
Essentials
Free anti-malware service;
successor to Live OneCare;
Downloadable for XP, Vista
and Windows 7 users
V1 delivered end of
September 2009. V2
expected before end of
calendar 2010
V2 test build
made
available in
July 2010
More Mo
informat
Mouse Mischief Mouse Mischief(?)
App for building PowerPoint-
based apps that builds on
the MultiPoint SDK. Aimed
primarily at students in
developing nations
Final due first half of 2010 Beta out in
January 2010
More Mo
Mischief
informat
Nano Touch ? MSR technology for addingtouch to small-screen
devices (including wearable
PCs). Successor to the Lucid
Touch project
? Demonstrated
at TechFest
2009 in
February
More Nan
Touch
informat
Natal Kinect New gesture-focused gamecontrolling camera for Xbox
360 (and someday, MS says,
PCs)
November 4, 2010 Soft launched
at E3 in June
More Nat
informat
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Nectar ? Microsoft Research-createddata-management tools for
distributed/clustered
servers. Related to Dryad
? Mentioned in
white papers
in summer of
2010; not
sure if
available inprototype
form
More Nec
informat
Newport ? Collaborative mobileapplication from Microsoft
Research for sharing photos,
notes, etc.
? ? More New
informat
Niagara Hohm Microsoft-hosted energy-management service. First in
a line of energy-related
software/services
? (was supposed to be out
in final form in late 2009)
Invitation-
only beta out
in late June
2009
More Nia
informat
Oahu ? Consumer-focused Surfacetabletop retailing for about
$1,500
? Microsoft
surveying
users about
interest; no
prototypes
yet
More Oah
informat
Office 15 ? Follow-on to Office 2010 Rumored date is 2013 Leaked earlybuild hit the
Web inAugust
More Off
informat
OfficeCommunicationsServer 14
Office
Communications
Server 2010 (?)
New version of Microsofts
unified comm. Platform and
the successor to OCS 2007
R2
Q4 2010 (for on-premises
version); early 2011 for
OCS Online with OCS 14
features
TAP testers
received code
in March
2010; no
word on
when/if a
public beta
will happen
More OC
informat
OfficeTalk ? Twitter for business (similarto Yammer) concept test
from Office Labs
? Microsoft
adding select
outside
testers to the
project as of
March 2010
More
OfficeTal
informat
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OneAlbum ? Face-recognition researchproject with uses across
Web-based photo galleries
Researchers
demonstrated
at TechFest
2010 in
March 2010
More
OneAlbu
informat
Orchard (the successorto Oxite)
Open-source CMS platform,
now owned by the
CodePlex Foundation and
staffed/backed by Microsoft
? Specs and
source
available as
of November
2009
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informat
Orleans ? Next-gen programmingenvironment for Azure;
similar to CLR for Windows
? Microsoft
Researchers
presenting on
Orleans work
during
summer 2010
More Orl
informat
Oslo BingSpring/Summer
2010 refresh
This isnt the MS modeling
platform (codenamed Oslo);
its the UX/UI for the Bing
Spring 2010 refresh
Rollout in U.S. began in
late March 2010; new
entertainment and UI
updates added in June
2010
No word on
if/when the
Oslo UI will
be adopted
by Bing
teams in
other
countries
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informat
Oslo Repository ? Integrated repository at thecrux of Microsoft's Oslo
modeling strategy. MS keeps
whittling away at what Oslo
is and will do
Final will be integratedinto a future version of
SQL Server
New testbuild out in
November
2009
More Oslrepositor
informat
Paris ? New Windows PresentationFoundation and Silverlight
controls for OCS 14; this
could be the Silverlight Web
client for OCS 14
Communicator
Q4 2010 OCS 2010 (or
whatever the
final name is)
still in private
testing only
More Par
informat
Pimento Zune Mobile Zune services for WindowsMobile devices. Expected to
include music/video
purchase, playback, sharing,
social-networking and more
Available for Windows
Phone 7 for Holiday 2010
Windows
Phone 7 test
devices go to
select devs in
July
More Pim
informat
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Ping Ping (?) Tool for sharing Bing searchresults
? Invitation-
only test
phase kicked
off in
September
2009
More Pin
informat
PlayAnywhere Mobile Surface Research project focused onenabling 3D interaction with
mobile devices using a
camera and a projector
? Researchers
demod at
TechFest
2010 in
March 2010
More
PlayAnyw
informat
Plex ? Office Labs' Virtual canvassoftware underlying
TouchWall and other future
productivity technologies
TouchWall is a 2019
thing; Plex is part of
prototypes
? More Ple
informat
Purple ? The UX, or userexperience)/interface, for
Pink. Could this refer to Loop
(?). If so, may appear in
some form with WP7 phones
Holiday 2010 (?) Microsoft
pulled plug on
Kin in late
June 2010
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informat
Quadrant ? Visual modeling tool; part ofthe Oslo trio of products
Final could be integrated
into a future Visual Studio
release Or is Quadrant
now tied to SQL Server?
Project
quietly killed
in summer
2010
More Qua
informat
Quant ? Cost model for patchmanagement; MS and
Securosis developing in
tandem. Results will be
available under Creative
Commons license
? White papers
and
information
available for
download
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informat
Quincy ? Microsoft Researchsscheduling system for
distributed clusters. Related
to Dryad
? White papers
mentioning
Quincy
available in
summer 2010
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informat
RearType ? Microsoft Research project toput keys on the back of
tablets/slates
? Prototypes
available for
demo
purposes
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informat
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Red Dog Windows Azure The lowest level OS piece ofMicrosoft's cloud
environment. Similar to
Amazon's EC2.
Microsoft began charging
for Red Dog on Feb. 1
2010
In beta since
fall 2008;
new updates
released
regularly
More Red
informat
RedHawk ? Microsoft incubation projectto replace Win32 with
managed code. One
expected deliverable: A
back-end compiler for Midori
Part of Windows 8/.Net 5
wave in 2011/2012 (?)
? More Red
informat
Rosetta ? Visitmix Labs training projectto help developers learn new
technologies based on skills
they currently have
? Current focus
of Project
Rosetta is to
help Flash
developers
learn
Silverlight
More Ros
informat
SBS 7 Small BusinessServer 2011 (?)
Next version of SBS,
featuring Windows Server
2008 R2, Exchange 2010,
SharePoint Foundation 2010.
On-premise product (Aurora
is its hybrid cloud-on-prem
cousin)
2011 (?) Public test
build due in
August 2010.
(Now looking
like
September)
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informat
Seahorse Pivot LiveLabs project using visualsearch to help users view
the Web as a web
? Invitation-only test
preview out
in November
2009
More Seainformat
Seawall ? Microsoft Research andCornell project looking at
ways to improve
multitenancy performance
and security in the cloud
? Researchers
presented
Seawall paper
at Usenix
2010 in June
More Sea
informat
Second Light Latestincarnation is
Mobile Surface
Microsoft Research project
that marries touch
technology with projection
technology. One of the
successors to MSR's Play
Anywhere technology.
? Mobile
Surface
demonstrated
at TechFest
2010 in
March
More Sec
Light
informat
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ServiceOS ? Microsoft Research projectthat is the successor to
Gazelle (browser-OS
mashup)
? Internal
prototype
exists inside
Microsoft
Research
More
ServiceO
informat
Sift Sift (?) Could be the name for anoperating system software
for mobile phones; computer
search engine software;
computer programs for
searching email, text
messages, address and
contact information.
? Microsoft's
trademark
attempt
"initially
refused" by
the PTO; not
clear if and
when
Redmond will
reapply
More Sift
informat
Sitka SQL Azure(formerly known
as SQL Data
Services)
Once viewed as Microsoft's
equivalent to Amazon's
SimpleDB. Now looking more
like Microsoft-hosted SQL
Server
Microsoft began harging
customers for it on Feb.
1, 2010
Ongoing
updates being
made
More Sitk
informat
Skinput ? Research project showinghow human body can be
used as an input surface
? Demonstrated
at TechFest
2010 in
March 2010
More Ski
informat
SkyBox My Phone Service for syncing phoneinformation across the Web;
similar to Apple's MobileMe.
Find My Phone service for
WP7is one piece of this
? Version 1.0for WM 6.x
released in
October 2009
Version 2.0
(paid
subscription)
was slated for
first half of
2010
More Skyinformat
SmartFlow ? Microsoft alternative to
Adobe LightRoom, but withmore social-networking
emphasis
Now a project of
Microsofts FUSE Lab
? More
SmartFloinformat
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Social Desktop Internal MScodename
is/was "Tattoo"
MSR project to integrate
social networking and online
sharing more directly into
PC-client experience
? Demonstrated
at TechFest
2009 in
February
2009
More Soc
Desktop
informat
SONGO ? Search on the Gosearch/ad cache for mobile
devices
? Demonstrated
at TechFest
2010 in
March 2010
More SO
informat
Spindex ? FUSE Lab project similar inconcept to FriendFeed social
aggregation service
? Invitation-
only test
period kicked
off in early
May 2010
More Spi
informat
StartKey ? Windows and/or WindowsLive settings on a thumb
drive
? Beta was
slated for late
2008. No
word on
if/when it
happened
More Sta
informat
Stirling MicrosoftForefront
Protection
family
Integrated business security
suite, comprised of Client
Security, Server Security
and Edge Security and
Access solutions, plus aunified management
console.Forefront EndPoint
Protection client beta
delivered in July 2010
Delayed by a year; now
will be delivered in pieces
from late 2009 to early
2010
Integrated
management
console
(Forefront
ProtectionManager)
killed in April;
client piece
moved to
System
Center team
in May
More Stir
informat
Stout ? Microsoft Research/UC SanDiego project; adaptive
interface for scalable cloud
storage
? Researchers
presented
info at Usenix
2010 in June
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informat
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Trebuchet ? High-level, cross-labstrategy for making
datacenter infrastructure and
services more scalable. May
be connected to the "Gen 4"
datacenter initiaves
Gen 4 datacentersare
being built in 2010
Pieces, like
Monsoon, are
in the works
now
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Trebuche
informat
Tribeca ? GRC (Governance, Risk andCompliance) guidance
documentation
? In beta as of
January 2009
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informat
UCop ? Utility co-processormiddleware project from MS
Researc h; goal is to speed
up desktop applications
using cloud infrastructure
? Researchers
shared info
on UCop at
Usenix 2010
in June
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informat
Uno ? Compliance-managementSolution Accelerator
? In test as of
late 2008;
new build out
in fall 2009
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informat
Vail ? Next major release ofWindows Home Server
Late 2010 (?) New beta
refresh out in
August 2010;
RC still to
come before
RTM
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informat
Vedea ? Visualization language forprogramming newbies from
Microsoft Research
? Test build
expected in
early 2010
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informat
Vine Vine (?) Twitter-like notificationservice. Originally developed
by the Windows Live team
? In incubation
now; test
version
released in
2009
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informat
Viveri ? Sandbox site for Microsoft totest new search concepts
? Demonstrated
at TechFest
2009 in
February
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informat
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Volta Originallycodenamed
Tesla. Current
incarnation may
beReactive
Extensions for.Net
Cloud programming toolset
somewhat akin to Google's
GWT
Status unknown.
Removed from Microsoft's
Web site in fall 2007 with
no further update
Developer
preview
released late
2007
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informat
Windows 8 Windows 8 Successor to Windows 7 Late 2011 (if theyunderpromise/overdliver);
otherwise by mid 2012
(according to the latest
leaks)
Milestone 1
and working
feature list
out to OEMs
now
More Win
8 inform
Windows 8Server
Windows Server
2011/2012 (?)
Successor to Windows
Server 2008 R2
Late 2011 (if they
underpromise/overdliver);
otherwise by mid 2012
(according to the latest
leaks)
? More Win
8 Server
informat
Windows LiveWave 4
Windows Live Next versions of add-on
services like Hotmail,
Messenger, LiveWriter, etc.
Final versions of all Wave
4 services expected by
fall 2010
Beta refresh
of Essentials
bundle out in
August 2010.
Hotmail Wave
4 still getting
updatesas of
August 2010
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Live Wav
informat
Windows Mobile7 (formerlyknown asPhoton)
Windows Phone
OS 7.0
Major release of Microsoft's
mobile phone OS for
Windows Phone 7 Series
devices. Touch/gesture
recognition and more
consumer-focused features
expected
Announcement expected
in October; first WP7
phones coming to Europe
in October 2010 and U.S.
in November 2010
RTM of OS on
Sept. 1 2010
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Mobile 7
informat
Windows ServerApp-V
Will be part of
Virtual Machine
Manager v.Next
One key to moving existing
applications to the cloud
Second half of 2011 Demonstrated
at Tech Ed
2010 in June
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WinWESS ? The tweaked WindowsServer core upon which
Essential Business Server
and Small Business Server
are based. Unclear whether
Microsoft will license thiscore at some point to other
OEMs
? ? More
WinWESS
informat
Xdrive Windows AzureDrive
Tool for creating automatic
backups of apps to be
moved to Windows Azure
cloud OS
? Beta released
in early
February
2010
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informat
xRM ? Microsoft's "relationshipmanagement"
software/service platform.
Similar to Salesforce.com's
Force.com
No word on whether
current platform is "final"
or "beta"
Being used by
software and
services
developers
inside and
outside of MS
now.
More xRM
informat
XYZ ? The new codename for the"MinSafe" Windows managed
code work being done by
Mark Russinovich/Jon
DeVaan & Co.
Could debut as part of
Windows 8 around 2011
In incubation
now
More
informat
XYZ
Zune HD2 ? Successor to Zune HD that ismore like an iPod Touch
2011 (?) ? More Zun
HD2
informat
Zurich ? .Net Services plus identityservices layer of Azure. Not
clear if/how identity services
fits into AppFabric or not
On-premises version of
AppFabric to go final in
2010; remaining Geneva
identity components to go
final in 2010, too
Cloud version
of AppFabric
to go to
testers in
2010
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informat
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